Tool-handle



(No Model.)

W. NUNLBY.

TOOL HANDLE.

Patented Jan, 20, 1885..

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\VILLIKM N'UNLEY, ()F NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

TOOL-HANDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 310,959, dated January20, 1885.

Application filed June 7, 18,84. (No model.)

To calla/ham it may concern:

Be itknown that I, WILLIAM NUNLEY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, haveinvented certain new and-useful Improvements in Handles; and I do herebydeclare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same, reference,

being bad. to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of referencemarked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The object of this invention is to provide an improved handle forleather-shavers steels and similar small tools requiringlightsettings,which, rwhile possessing simplicity and cheap ness of construction andthe requisite lightness, will allow a ready withdrawal of the shankshould the tool be broken off at the handle.

The invention consists in the peculiar a1 rangements and combinations ofparts, substantially as will be hereinafter set forth, and be finallyembodied in the clauses of the claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters ofreference indicate like parts in each of the several figures, Figure 1is an elevation of the tool; Fig. 2, a longitudi'nal section of thesame; Fig. 3, an elevation of a certain core-piece, and Fig. 4 a sectionthereof.

In said drawings, A is the wooden body of the handle, which isperforated and recessed at a point near the tool, the perforation(marked a) being in a transverse position as related to the recess 1).

B is a metallic core-piece fitting tightly into the recess in thehandle, and provided with a perforation, a, corresponding to that in thehandle, and having a slightly-tapering shank socket, 0, adapted toreceive the shank of the tool and hold the same without extrafastenings.

O is the tool, which in the case shown is a leather shavers steel havinga tapering shank, 0, corresponding to the socket e, and fitting sotightly in said socket as to require considerable force-more than themere weight of the tool or any force derived froni'impact occasionedduring ordinary usage-to disconnect the parts. Said shank extendssufficientl y back into the perforation a, as in Fig. l, to enable a pinor bar to have sufficient play to throw the same from holding contact.

Heretofore shavers steels have been ordinarily secured in a simplewooden handle,

similar in contour to the one shown. If by accident the steel werebroken, it was practically impossible to withdraw the shank, so that itbecame necessary to get an entirely new outfit at a consequent waste oftime and money.

By means of the improved device, should the tool be broken at or nearthe handle, I may remove the shank by inserting a pin or bar of anysuitable size through the perforations a a, thus obtaining a leverage,and then by pressing against the projecting end of the shank the latteris easily thrown from holding contact.

The handle may be used to advantage in connection with jewelers orotherlight tools.

I am aware that it is not new to provide wooden handles with metalliccore-pieces to receive the tool, and that in some cases thesecore-pieces have, with the wooden handle,been transversely perforated;but where the perforations have been formed they have been to receive apermanent pin or rivet to hold the core to the wooden handle, and havenot allowed the insertion of a lever to force out the shank, as in theease above described.

I am also aware that in heavy toolssuch, for example, as niillstonepicksand other stone-working toolsthe shank of a tool has been secured in anall-metal head or handle having a transverse opening, to enable a wedgeto be driven against the end of said shank to force the tool out of thehandle or head; but such a construction, even if brought down to aproper size, would be practically worthless because of its excessiveweight. It will thus be understood that I do not claim, broadly, acore-piece secured to its handle by a pin running through both of them,or anything involved in such a construction, nor, broadly, a-

head or handle having a transverse" perforation enabling the tool to beforced from its seat; but

What I claim as myinvention is- The improved handle for leather-shaverssteels, consisting of a recessed and perforated handle-body, A, and arecessed and perforated ICU metallic core-piece, B, arranged in therecess In testimony that I claim the foregoing I of the said body, theperforations in said body have hereunto set my hand this 23d day of IOand core-piece corresponding to make a con May, 1884.

tinnous transverse perforation, and the recess T T r 5 in the saidcore-piece extending to the trans WILLIAM L Uh verse perforation thereinto allow the shank Vitnesses:

to project into said perforation, substantially F. F. CAMPBELL,

as and for the purposes set forth and shown. CHARLES H. PELIL.

